Data Scientist - AMP

Location: Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Department: Aspire Software Lebanon, Research & Development

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Aspire Software is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team in Lebanon.

Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.

About the job:

We're looking for a Data Scientist who has taken machine learning models — especially reinforcement learning — from research to production. Today, our pricing engine is a rule-based parametric system (elasticity modeling, sigmoid demand curves, day-of-week weighting, occupancy and pickup deviation guardrails). Your job is to evolve it into a learning system: contextual bandits, RL policies, and probabilistic forecasting that price thousands of hotel-room-nights every day. You will also integrate other signals into this forecasted price, like competitor prices, events in the area, weather, etc. 

You'll own this work end-to-end: framing the problem, designing rewards and offline evaluation, training models, and shipping them as production Python services on our FastAPI / AWS stack — not handing notebooks to engineers. You'll be expected to move fast using AI-assisted development tools. 

What You'll Work On 

• Pricing Intelligence — Replace and extend our parametric pricing engine (occupancy deviation, pickup velocity, price elasticity, booking curve forecasting, seasonality, day-of-week effects) with learned models: contextual bandits, RL policies, and Bayesian elasticity estimation 

• RL in Production — Design reward functions, exploration strategies, and off-policy evaluation that let us deploy RL pricing safely across multi-tenant hotel data; build the training, monitoring, and rollback infrastructure to support it 

• Demand Forecasting — Improve our booking-curve and final-occupancy forecasts (currently sigmoid-based) with proper time-series and probabilistic methods; quantify uncertainty and feed it into pricing decisions 

• Simulation & Evaluation — Extend our historical replay and synthetic simulation harness into a first-class offline evaluation and A/B testing framework for pricing policies 

• LLM-Powered Features — Build agentic workflows (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, LangChain / LangGraph) for event-based pricing recommendations, demand analysis, and revenue-manager copilots 

• Productionization — Write production-grade Python services: typed, tested, modular packages running on FastAPI / SQLAlchemy / PostgreSQL — the kind of code a staff engineer would approve, not scripts and notebooks thrown over the wall 

• Data Pipelines — Work with PredictHQ event data, competitor rate feeds, and PMS integrations (Seekda, InnQuest, others) to build reliable data flows that power pricing decisions 

• Infrastructure — Contribute to our AWS architecture (ECS Fargate, SQS, EventBridge, S3, CloudWatch) and help scale the platform as we grow 

Tech Stack 

• Core: Python 3.11, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy 2.0, Alembic, PostgreSQL, Redis 

• ML / RL: PyTorch or TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Stable-Baselines3 / Ray RLlib (or equivalent), MLflow or similar experiment tracking 

• AI / LLM: OpenAI GPT-4, Anthropic Claude, LangChain, LangGraph, PredictHQ 

• Data: Pandas, Polars, NumPy, statsmodels 

• Infrastructure: AWS (ECS Fargate, SQS, EventBridge, S3, CloudWatch, ECR), Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD 

• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana Loki, PostHog 

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional data science / ML engineering experience with models running in production (not just notebooks, dashboards, or analytics) 
• Production reinforcement learning experience — you have personally designed, trained, deployed, and monitored at least one RL or contextual-bandit system serving real users at scale. You can speak in detail to: reward design, exploration / exploitation trade-offs, off-policy evaluation, distribution shift, safe rollout, and what broke when the model met production 
• Strong Python development skills beyond scripting and Jupyter — you write modular, typed, tested Python packages; you're comfortable with async patterns, ORMs (SQLAlchemy), building production APIs (FastAPI or similar), and you can hold your own in a code review with backend engineers 
• Solid foundations in classical ML, statistics, and time-series — regression, Bayesian methods, causal inference, demand forecasting, price elasticity 
• Experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) and frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph for agentic workflows 
• AI-assisted development is a must — you actively use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar to accelerate your workflow. We expect you to ship faster and think bigger because of these tools 
• Strong SQL and data-modeling skills (PostgreSQL preferred) 
• Experience with AWS cloud services or equivalent cloud platforms 
• Comfortable working with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and production deployments 

Nice to Have 

• Experience in revenue management, hospitality tech, dynamic pricing, yield optimization, or ad / e-commerce bidding 
• Background in price elasticity estimation, contextual bandits for pricing or recommendation, or hierarchical Bayesian demand models 
• Experience with event-driven architectures (SQS, EventBridge, or similar) 
• Familiarity with model and data observability — Prometheus / Grafana, drift detection, model performance dashboards 
• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms 
• Publications, open-source contributions, or competition results in ML / RL 

What We Value 

• Speed with quality — Ship fast, but ship code and models a staff engineer would approve 
• AI-native workflow — You don't just know about AI tools, you use them daily to write, debug, and architect 
• Ownership — Pick up a problem and drive it to completion without hand-holding 
• Simplicity — Elegant solutions over over-engineered ones. Minimal code that does the job 
• Curiosity — Our domain (hotel revenue optimization) has real depth. You're excited to learn it